Tue Feb 1, 2022 – 3:30 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Fulfiling a promise, the Orthodox Archbishop of Cyprus announced that he will suspend 12 priests in his diocese for not taking one of the abortion-tainted COVID jabs.
Archbishop Chrysostomos II made the strong comments to state television CyBC on January 30, revealing as of February 1 that 12 priests would be suspended if they continued to refuse his COVID jab mandate.
A total of 27 of the 123 priests remained un-injected, with 15 of the clergy having obtained a medical exemption. The remaining dozen will face an initial three-month suspension, which will then become six months, and eventually lead to being defrocked.
The Orthodox archbishop of Cyprus had threatened in early January that unless his clergy take the abortion-tainted COVID shots by January 15 they will be kicked out of his diocese.
Chrysostomos accused the un-injected priests of being theologians who were responsible for persuading Orthodox faithful to also refuse the injection. Their actions were born out of “selfish motives,” said the 80-year-old archbishop, who described their refusal as “unprecedented.”
Chrysostomos, who survived cancer a few years ago, suggested that the priests were emboldened to reject
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